Files provided by Colombian officials from computers they say were captured in a cross-border raid in Ecuador this month appear to tie Venezuela’s government to efforts to secure arms for Colombia’s largest insurgency.

Officials taking part in Colombia’s investigation of the computers provided The New York Times with copies of more than 20 files, some of which also showed contributions from the rebels to the 2006 campaign of Ecuador’s leftist president, Rafael Correa.

If verified, the computer files would offer rare insight into the cloak-and-dagger nature of Latin America’s longest-running guerrilla conflict, including what appeared to be the killing of a Colombian government spy who had microchips implanted in her body, a crime apparently carried out by the guerrillas in their jungle redoubt.

They would also potentially link the governments of Venezuela and Ecuador to the leftist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which is classified by Washington as a terrorist organization and has fought to overthrow Colombia’s government for four decades.

THIS MAKES CHAVEZ AN ACCOMPLICE TO KIDNAPPING AND TERROR.

WHAT CHAVEZ DID WAS FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES AN ACT OF WAR AGAINST COLOMBIA.

There are a number of ways one could explain this, and that's a good part of what we do here at The Jawa Report - try to make sense of an alien culture.

But some folks aren't getting the message, so I feel I must break this down to it's lowest common denominator.

This is why more Muslims do not speak out against terrorism:

THE WORD 'ISLAM' MEANS 'SUBMISSION'

The entire culture of Islam is geared towards accepting the "word of Allah" without question, not making waves and not using critical thinking skills.What else would you expect other than a society of blindly devoted sheep?

I think Islam is not about submission - as Muslims claim; it is about COERCION.

And the fact that Muslims use coercion proves it is a false creed.

HERE'S WHY:

If one believes that God is omniscient and omnipotent - and created the universe, then one must believe He gave us Free Will - the power to choose. If God had wanted us to be pre-wired for Islam or any other particular sect, then God could have made it as instinctual as the desire for water when we feel thirst, or food when we are hungry, or flight for a bird and swimming for a fish.

But God created humans to have Free Will, to be free to choose; He must want it that way.

And that means we must be free to choose less good things and be free to fail - to come up short.

Performing rituals without the necessary feelings, intentions and wishes is false, too. God mustn't want that, either. God only wants sincere worship. Because if God is omniscient, He knows when you're trying to fool him. Coerced worship is insincere, too - therefore it is also false, and unacceptable to God.

Therefore, those who practice and preach COERCION in religious matters - who seek to use power to force people to perform or accept one way of worshiping over another - are USURPING God, and undermining His will.

Islam is based on coercion; therefore it is false. It has always been based on coercion - on JIHAD; that's how it was spread by Mohamed, and how it has spread since.

Islam is all about Jihad and dhimmitude: coercion and forced submission; therefore, Islam goes against God.

The Democratic primary is starting to look like World War I. The origins of the dispute are forgotten. Pennsylvania is the Somme. No chance, though, that the Clintons, who lead the imperial armies, will consent to paying reparations at the Treaty of Denver.

The most striking resemblance to the Great War has been the campaign-worker body-count. They're strewn all over the battlefield. Geraldine Ferraro (killed for bringing up if Obama weren't black), Samantha Power (Hillary's a "monster"), the intrepid if foolhardy Rev. Wright (multiple offenses), James Hagee (Catholics as the "anti-Christ"), Bill Cunningham ("Barack Hussein Obama"), Bill Sheehan (for bringing up Obama's drug use). All gone. Anyone working for or in support of a political campaign these days is entering a free-fire zone.

Some say the high casualty rate in the campaigns is the result of indiscriminate political correctness. Campus speech codes were put in place to monitor people who said the "wrong thing" about favored groups, often categorized as holding "minority status" by dint of race, gender or sexual preference. Now the Democratic campaigns are using the toxic PC gas on each other.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2?rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere.

Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation. Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase. If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Michael Yon called on his satellite phone to talk about what's going on in Iraq. I recorded it and it's up here for your listening pleasure -- nothing fancy, just a quick recording posted less than 20 minutes after it happened. Click here to listen.

A few key points:(1) It's likely to get worse before it's better;(2) No one seems to doubt Iranian backing for the violence; (3) This isn't about religion, it's about money and power; and(4) Unlike Al Qaeda in the north, this isn't so much a fight to the finish as violence as a negotiating tactic. It's not a civil war.

they want to take over the region. To do that they need us to leave with our tail between our legs. And to do that they need the Democrat in the White House, so they need help the Democrats - and a "TET OFFENSIVE" is how.

Because the US election is only six months away, all Iran has to do is keep it going for six months. hen the Democrat's will win the White House (probably with Obama) and he will retreat.

To stop that, Bush and Maliki and Petraeus need a coup de grace by convention time. That's 120 days.

Only 120 days.

I expect Petraeus and Central Command to take on Iran as directly as they can.

Stay tuned.

*******Update: The good news is - according to Yon: while Iran tries to foil us with their Shia stooges, AL QAEDA IS BEING CRUSHED elsewhere.

The dollar hits new lows against the Euro and other currencies, yet there is little indication foreign corporations or governments are taking advantage of the situation to participate in the Yard Sale of the Century — that is, buying US equities.

There is a double whammy in doing so. Stock prices are down, so is the dollar, and equities will participate in future economic growth, plus a recovery in the currency when relative interest rates readjust. Logic would suggest that the foreign surplus entities should be on a buying spree in the US. Indeed, the recycling of surpluses is an economic necessity for the system to function. So where are the buyers at the Yard Sale of the Century?

If Elected ... Clinton Details Premium Cap in Health PlanSenator Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview on Wednesday that if elected president she would push for a universal health care plan that would limit what Americans pay for health insurance to no more than 10 percent of their income, a significant reduction for some families.

In an extensive interview on health policy, Mrs. Clinton said she would like to cap health insurance premiums at 5 percent to 10 percent of income.

The average cost of a family policy bought by an individual in 2006 and 2007 was $5,799, or 10 percent of the median family income of $58,526, according to America’s Health Insurance Plans, a trade group. Some policies cost up to $9,201, or 16 percent of median income.

The average out-of-pocket cost for workers who buy family policies through their employers is lower, $3,281, or 6 percent of median income, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health research group.

When the price of goods or services is set by the government - and is not based on costs in a free and competitive marketplace - then it is SOCIALISM.

It has never worked anywhere at anytime in any market.

IF IT WORKED THAN NORTH KOREA WOULD STILL BE RICHER THAN SOUTH KOREA.

IF IT WORKED THAN ZIMBABWE WOULD BE RICHER THAN RHODESIA.

IF IT WORKED WE'D ALL BE DRIVING YUGO'S.

IF IT WORKED THAN CHINA AND RUSSIA WOULDN'T HAVE LARGELY ABANDONED SOCIALISM - (OR AT LEAST CREATED PROSPERITY IN THE MARKETS WHICH THEY HAVE OPENED).

IF IT WORKED THAN VIETNAM WOULD BE WEALTHIER THAN THAILAND.

IF IT WORKED THAN BRITS WOULDN'T BE SO UPSET WITH THE INEPT NHS.

AND SO ON...

Hillary's policy will destroy our healthcare system. It is exactly the wrong medicine.

It is socialism and it is the road to serfdom.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.

*******Update (with apologies to Hayek):

If Hillary and her leftist comrades think that CAPS (VISUAL PUN INTENDED!) would work for healthcare, then why wouldn't they use them elsewhere (as they DO with "carbon caps")?

Some parts of the USA have a housing crisis, so...

Why not have RENT caps, and cap rent at 30% of income?

Some corporation in the USA pay their executives a lot, so...

Why not have EXECUTIVE PAY caps, and cap executive pay at 50x their lowest worker's pay?

Some people in the USA waste energy - and the USA uses the most per capita in the world, so...

Why not have ENERGY USE caps, and cap individual energy consumption?

Some people have "too much house" and others not enough, so...

Why not cap living space at 1000 sq ft/person?

Some colleges are cheap and others are too expensive, so...

Why not cap tuition at 5% of income?

AND SO ON....

The reason not to do ANY of these things is NOT because some pundits call them leftist or socialist (which is what they are!).

It is because these policies have failed everywhere they have ever been employed.

They reduce the quality of the good or service and prosperity overall because:

services and goods continuously improve in quality and value ONLY when there is an incentive,

and only a free consumer can incentivize transactions. prosperity is a BY-PRODUCT of LIBERTY, of personal choice.

No matter the intelligence and good intentions of the socialist, the collectivist - whether Maoist or Stalinist or or Trotskyite or Clintonite or Obamanist , they will therefore utterly fail.

Leftists have a very hard time with this fact because it's counter-intuitive to "people who think they know better". These know-it-alls - these leftist elitists - have a hard time accepting the fact that a marketplace made up of millions of free people buying and selling things can more efficiently price things than a "kitchen cabinet" or a POLITBURO of well-intentioned geniuses.

Hillarycare's fundamental failure was not a result of her stupidity - she isn't stupid.

Hillarycare's fundamental failure was pre-ordained because no politburo can out perform a marketplace.

Perhaps this analogy can convince a few lefties of the superiority of the efficiency of the marketplace:

Imagine a single supercomputer program by a team of computer geniuses.

And this is even MORE true in real life, in real markets because people in markets bring a vast and diverse set of knowledge to an issue, and they have a powerful incentive to be right: they're risking THEIR OWN capital.

Nothing is smarter or more efficient.

That's why marketplaces are the MOST efficient means of assessing value. In fact, it is the only means of doing it well.

And it's why privatizing things leads to better outcomes.

BEYOND THAT THERE'S THIS REASON:

Free marketplaces are really just an amalgamation of free people doing what they want - buying what they want, making what they want.

It is the social face of liberty.

Without liberty, not only is there now prosperity, but there is no room for the Human Spirit.

It is a little known fact that the United States was the world's #1 oil-producing nation until about twenty years ago. We are still in the top five, although we do import approximately half the oil we use.

We are sitting on a tremendous amout of oil now. The question is, will we find the means and the motivation to take it out of the Earth, or will we continue to bow to environmentalist pressure? Without the environmentalists, we would still be the #1 oil-producing nation in the world, and with this new discovery, we would be for years to come.

A massive oil field has been found in the area of Montana and the Dakotas. It is distinctly possible that this find increases known American reserves by 10 times the current known amount.

America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Fieldthat could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largelygone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakotacould boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving westerneconomies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and makingIranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant.

In the next 30 days the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) will release anew report giving an accurate resource assessment of the Bakken Oil Formationthat covers North Dakota and portions of South Dakota and Montana. With newhorizontal drilling technology it is believed that from 175 to 500 billionbarrels of recoverable oil are held in this 200,000 square mile reserve that wasinitially discovered in 1951. The USGS did an initial study back in 1999 thatestimated 400 billion recoverable barrels were present but with prices bottomingout at $10 a barrel back then the report was dismissed because of the highercost of horizontal drilling techniques that would be needed, estimated at$20-$40 a barrel.

It was not until 2007, when EOG Resources of Texas started a frenzywhen they drilled a single well in Parshal N.D. that is expected to yield700,000 barrels of oil that real excitement and money started to flow in NorthDakota. Marathon Oil is investing $1.5 billion and drilling 300 new wells inwhat is expected to be one of the greatest booms in Oil discovery since Oil wasdiscovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938.

The US imported about 14 million barrels of Oil per day in 2007 , whichmeans US consumers sent about $340 Billion Dollars over seas building palaces inDubai and propping up unfriendly regimes around the World, if 200 billionbarrels of oil at $90 a barrel are recovered in the high plains the added wealthto the US economy would be $18 Trillion Dollars which would go a long way instabilizing the US trade deficit and could cut the cost of oil in half in thelong run.

Why is it that environmentalists want to shut down our capacity to supply our own oil? Do they want us to do business with the medieval regimes of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, and Nigeria? Do the environmentalists want Islamofascist dictators to have more power, and for the West to have less power?

Events this year have exposed, once and for all, in a way that cannot be denied, elided, or spun, Democratic liberals as the party of abject incompetence and institutionalized corruption.

Eliot Spitzer worked his way to the governorship of New York State as the living embodiment of liberal higher morality, crusading against a series of dubious financial and corporate villains. His downfall as the result of a prostitution scheme too moronic for fiction might be taken as evidence of personal failings and no more were it not for the fact that his replacement, David A. Paterson, confessed to similar activities as the first official act of his administration. (If not even more egregious -- no one, after all, has accused Spitzer of trading jobs for sexual favors).

We need only add James McGreevey, ousted in 2004 from New Jersey's governorship for homosexual escapades with an aide (apppointed to a homeland security job with the state for which he had no qualifications), to conclude that liberalism has subsided to a level of corruption of European dimensions.

It's often overlooked -- thanks in large part to the Clinton "legacy" -- that such misbehavior is almost always accompanied by corruption in other spheres. Insistence by Clinton's defenders that his various lady troubles were "personal matters" succeeded in obscuring the moral connection between Big Bill's follies and the endless bribes, kickbacks, suicides, illegal mass firings, and vanishing files that made the "most ethical administration in history" so entertaining to watch.

So it needs restating as a simple truth that a man who cannot control his sexual impulses is unlikely to succeed in more complex matters. In little over a year, Spitzer threw away the goodwill engendered by his landslide victory through a series of petty conspiracies and dirty tricks, bringing New York state government to a standstill in the process. While McGreevey was a better governor than he's ever likely to get credit for (he solved the longstanding auto-insurance "crisis" that made New Jersey a laughingstock for half a dozen previous administrations), his penchant for putting his muscle boys on the state payroll undercuts any other claims for his record. The same can be said for Paterson. Though, being both blind and black, he may likely survive, revelations concerning his practice of awarding jobs and positions don't bode well for the future.

These men are clearly representative of the post-Clinton Democratic Party. They set out to follow in Bill's footsteps, have ended up much the same as he did, and have dragged their party and political doctrine along with them. (At this point somebody will bring up the names Foley and Craig. But neither stood anywhere near the center of American conservatism in the way that the Northeastern governors do with liberalism as a matter of course. Foley and Craig were rotten apples. With the Democrats, it's the whole barrel.)

In turning to the presidential campaign, we need do no more than mention Madame Hillary. The Ma Barker of Little Rock is in a class by herself when it comes to political iniquity (not to mention dodging snipers). The chief puzzle concerning Hillary is how, being so blatantly what she is, she succeeds in holding onto any support whatsoever. There's a process in quantum mechanics called "renormalization", in which certain quantities with values of infinity are arbitrarily dropped back to a more manageable "zero" for the sake of solving the equation. This encapsulates Hillary's political career: truly mindboggling levels of corruption and ineptitude have been continually renormalized by fellow politicians and the media to enable her to survive. These people made a particular type of bargain when they bent the rules for Hillary. Now the ground is opening up under their feet. It has been a pleasure to watch.

Barack Obama was supposed to be another matter. Obama has ascended on a cloud of pure moral superiority and nothing else. That has now evaporated, thanks to impolitic comments from his wife and the news that he has for two decades belonged to what amounts to a racist cult. Obama has nothing else to offer in the way of experience or achievements. Beyond his current difficulties, there lie his continuing and as yet unexplained entanglement with Tony Rezko (He barely knew the man, he insists. All he did was show Rezko his new house before closing. I always clear major purchases with people I scarcely know, don't you?), along with pending revelations concerning his relationship with Bill Ayers, a former terrorist who began his career as one of the driving forces of the Weather Underground.

Obama's response, his "Kennedyesque" speech on race, was in fact purely Clintonian in that it attempted to transform his failings into virtues while placing the blame on the country as a whole. (Not to mention his innocent typical white grandmother.) In less than two weeks, Obama has succeeded in lowering himself to the same level as Madame Hillary. Quite an achievement. (As for Obama's claims to be a necessary "racial reconciliator", this reconciliation has in fact been going on since the end of segregation, quite successfully too. As is often the case with liberals, Obama is offering a solution to a problem that is solving itself.)

To this gallery we can add Jennifer Granholm, who assured that Michigan's current slide was as drastic and damaging as possible, Ed Rendell, Hillary's consigliere for Pennsylvania, John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Kwame Kilpatrick, charged with perjury, obstruction of justice, and malfeasance in office. That's the Democratic Party, the bastion of American liberalism, as it stands. A party whose entire leadership cadre, including presidential candidates, state governors, and Congressional leaders, are corrupt or incompetent or both, a party more suitable to ruling a Balkan or Central African peapatch than the world's reigning superpower.

"A violent cold front moved down from the Arctic. And places like Nikkaloukta in Northern Lappland experienced the iciest Easter in more than 100 years. 41 degrees below zero had the most hardened Nikkaloukta citizen contemplate, if it was really necessary to go outside."

Here's what Barack [middle name redacted] Obama has to say about his favorite Porsche-driving, mansion-buying, anti-American racist:

"Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable staying at the church."

How's that for a forthright statement? It reveals with crystalline clarity Obama's obfuscation and avoidance of the issue.

Obama is still defending Wright, and his 20-year association with Wright's racist demagoguery.

Obama does not say that he was offended by Wright's filth, only that other people were offended. And the most severe criticism Obama can offer for Wright's exhortations that his parishioners should sing "God Damn America!" instead of "God Bless America," is the weaselly suggestion that he "wouldn't have felt comfortable staying at the church."

The more he tries to extricate himself from this mess, the more obvious it is that in his heart, Barack [middle name redacted] Obama really does share Jeremiah Wright's world-view.

The much talked about film from Geert WildersFITNA - is available for viewing. (and I am not impressed...) Now the interesting part of the story will unfold: the kind of reaction it provokes. We will probably have to wait a few days for the repercussions to sound from Mosques around the world...but we can already witness the effluence proffered by leftwing politicians: that his film is not much unlike antijew Hitler propaganda. I will admit that this film falls in the category of political polemics - like the work of Michael Moore - and the viewer must be aware of the choices and manipulations that are inherent in the filmmaking process...BUT SHOW ME ONE HITLER-ERA FILM WHICH INCLUDES FOOTAGE OF A RABBI SAYING ANYTHING NEAR WHAT IS SAID BY THE MULLAHS AND AYATOLLAHS AND IMAMS IN THIS FILM!!! The comparison to Nazi era propaganda is appalling!!! Hitler's propaganda was based on lies!!! The primary and secondary sources of Fitna - factual events and direct statements - speak for themselves.

The objective of Islamoterrorism is obvious: the destruction of the USA, Israel, democracy and freedom. Anyone who believes we are near the end of this fight is a fool.

A footnote regarding the title Fitna: An interesting choice...does Wilders expect a cleansing of the Islamoterrorists via an Islamic civil war? We've been waiting years for moderate Islam to step to the plate...

My home school group and I visited and had a tour through Kansas City's National World War I Museum yesterday. It is the only World War I museum in the Western Hemisphere and it is here in KC.

I think World War I is the War that most of us know the least about. Our tour guide was a sweet, older man whose own father had fought in World War I.

We were amazed at the sacrifices the soldiers made during the war and the countless lives that were lost as the commanders figured out the correct strategy to win the war. It put today's loss of life in context. History always has a way of doing that. Which, IMHO, is why liberals should do a lot more studying of history.

As always it inspired me to do even more research and studying on World War I. If any of you have read any good books and/or have any good recommendations, please let me know.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

In an interview in conjunction with his big economic speech in New York, Senator Obama tells CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo he favors increasing the capital-gains tax rate.

Bartiromo reported after her interview: “Right now, as you know, the cap gains tax is at 15 percent. He has yet to give us a specific number. How high he wants that number to go? He has said, and he told me today, that he won't go above 28 percent. So we are talking about the possibility of a doubling in the capital gains tax. He was averaging at about 25 percent.”

The United States has escalated air strikes against Al Qaeda fighters operating in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas because of fears that support from the government may slip away, Reuters quoted a report published in the Washington Post as saying on Thursday.

US officials, who were not identified in the Post’s report, said Washington wanted to inflict as much damage as it could to Al Qaeda’s network now because President Pervez Musharraf may not be able to offer much help in the months ahead.

THIS IS NOT UNLIKE WHAT LINCOLN DID ION THE EARLY AUTUMN OF 1864:

HE WAS SURE HE WAS GOING TO LOSE TO THE COPPERHEAD DEM MCCLELLAN, SO HE ORDERED HIS GENERALS TO PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS, AND PRESS FOR VICTORY BY MARCH, (WHICH IS WHEN MCCLELLAN WOULD HAVE BEEN INAUGURATED).

THE RESULT: WE WON!

I FEEL THE SAME THING WILL HAPPEN IN PAKISTAN:

AS A RESULT OF "PAKISTAN'S COPPERHEADS" GAINING POWER, BUSH WILL FINALLY ALLOW THE MILITARY TO FIGHT WITH BOTH HANDS (INSTEAD OF US HAVING ONE BEHIND OUR BACK).

A two-week FOX News investigation, however, has uncovered where Wright will be spending a good deal of his timein retirement, and it is a far cry from the impoverished Chicago streets where the preacher led his ministry for 36 years.

FOX News has uncovered documents that indicate Wright is about to move to a 10,340-square-foot, four-bedroom home in suburban Chicago, currently under construction in a gated community.

While it is not uncommon for an accomplished clergyman to live in luxury, Wright’s retirement residence is raising some questions.

“Some people think deals like this are hypocritical. Jeremiah Wright himself criticizes people from the pulpit for middle classism, for too much materialism,” said Andrew Walsh, Associate Director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

“So he’s entitled to be tweaked here. So the question really is, how unusual is this? Somewhat unusual,” he said.

Very similar to Bill's psychopathic (foolish and easily falsifiable) lies about her being named after Sir Edmund Hillary. And what a contrast with "straight talk" McCain!

Bosnia-gate is bad for Clinton. It goes to the heart of the issue around her and her husband: their stunning ability to stare you in the eye and lie. In her own foreign policy speech last week in Washington, Clinton repeated claims she has been making for months: that a trip to Bosnia was made under death-defying circumstances.

"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." The story had already been discredited when US comedian Sinbad, who was also on the trip along with Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, told The Washington Post earlier this month that the only thing scary about the trip was he did not know where he would next get something to eat.

In a press conference after the speech, Clinton was asked about the Sinbad comments and dismissed him as simply a comedian. "We were told to run to our cars. That is what happened." She was clear-eyed and emphatic. Then Togo West, a former army secretary in the Clinton administration who was on the trip, stepped to the microphone and confirmed the story, saying the first lady was told to "run, duck, this is a hotspot and this is serious".

But CBS's footage of the event is damning. Clinton's casual stroll from the helicopter with her daughter to be greeted by an eight-year-old girl is now the stuff of legend on YouTube, clocking up one million views. A bunch of satirical films have emerged too. It is Clinton's descriptions of that day that are simply a breathtaking falsehood.

For what purpose? She knew there was television footage of the event - she was the first lady and had a travelling media contingent. It was simply a matter of time before production staff checked archives. It will not play well. Not with voters and not with super delegates.

An email from Kirtland C. Griffin [kirtgriffin@sbcglobal.net] of Guilford, CT

In an article in the Economist, Feb 21st 2008, it talks about the acidification of the oceans caused by anthropogenic CO2. It says that if something doesn't change, portions of the world's oceans could no longer support certain forms of aquatic life. Specifically at risk are sponges, corals and brachiopods. The concern relates in part to the huge volcanic eruptions at the end of the Permian Period 252 million years ago. They say that CO2 spewed from the volcanos caused the world's oceans to become more acidic, or probably more correctly, less alkaline.

The origin of the concern is a mathematical model. Where have we heard that before? They say that it is not only the reduction in alkalinity that is a concern but that, in conjunction with increasing ocean temperature, is more detrimental than either alone. Of course, the claim is made that this could lead to a domino effect and who knows what could happen if we continue to emit green house gas pollution?

What is important is not so much what the article says but rather how I became aware of it as well as what it does not say. An associate of mine had shown me a news release by a prominent US University. Not surprisingly, it espoused the UN IPCC line of alarmist AGW catastrophes. Knowing how I felt about the subject he asked what I thought of it because he was going there over the coming weekend and would be able to ask those responsible for the news release to comment on my input. I gave him what I though was a good assortment of scientific and political arguments and off he went as I eagerly awaited the outcome. Well, since he was "one of them" working with the department on a project, they actually told him they didn't buy the global warming thing either. That was a story for the general public to force them to do the right thing for the wrong reason. The world has to change their lifestyle for its own good. One can only imagine my surprise to hear that what many had thought, was really true.

This would have been a significant enough revelation to make this story interesting to any skeptic, but there was more to come. After relating the story to me, this individual went back a second time. This time they presented him with the article from the Economist and asked for further comment thinking that this time he had me. Now I am no ocean scientist, nor am I a chemist, but something smelled. After a little looking I found my information on the CO2, carbonic acid, calcite system.

The oceans are a vast reservoir of Carbon in various forms and there is a well regulated compensation system that covers a wide range of CO2 concentrations and temperature variation that has worked over billions of years. The other thing was that volcanos spew out CO2 but also SO2 as the Number 2 gas. Sorry, no pun intended. SO2 dissolved in water yields sulfurous acid, so I am told by Oliver Manuel, which is a much stronger acid than carbonic acid. So the effects associated with volcanic eruptions are unrelated to the current situation and was more severe. But that has never bothered the DAGW proponents. When I presented my rebuttal, the response was that this has nothing to do with the AGW agenda. This is different. IT CLEARLY IS NOT!

As sure as I am sitting here writing this, acidification is the next hoax to be perpetrated on the world to rein in our fossil fuel appetite. As the average global temperature continues to decline, the socialist opportunists will have to find another way to control the world and collect their carbon taxes to support their agenda and profit motives. Has anyone ever wondered that the primary architect of the Kyoto Protocol is a buddy of Al Gore and sells carbon credits?

The recent report of ocean temperatures cooling will not help their cause but even the National Jet Propulsion Laboratory suspects there might be a problem with the measurements. Apparently, the results did not conform to their preconceived notion of the outcome. The ocean temperature data may be a revelation as to the condition of our surface measurement system which several have demonstrated has a warming bias from the location of the stations to the corrections for the urban heat island effect.

The President of the Czech Republic, Dr Maclav Klaus, had it right when he said "A week ago, I gave a speech at an official gathering at the Prague Castle commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1948 communist putsch in the former Czechoslovakia. One of the arguments of my speech there, quoted in all the leading newspapers in the country the next morning, went as follows: "Future dangers will not come from the same source. The ideology will be different. Its essence will, nevertheless, be identical - the attractive, pathetic, at first sight noble idea that transcends the individual in the name of the common good, and the enormous self-confidence of its proponents about their right to sacrifice man and his freedom in order to make this idea reality." What I had in mind was, of course, environmentalism especially in its currently strongest version, climate alarmism....It has never been about the environment."

... the first of 3,000 new automated ocean buoys were deployed in 2003.They amounted to a significant improvement over earlier buoys that took theirmeasurements mostly at the ocean's surface.

The new buoys, known as Argos, drift along the oceans at a depth ofabout 6,000 feet constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity and speed ofocean currents. Every 10 days or so a bladder inflates, bringing to the surfacereadings taken at various depths. Once on the surface, they transmit theirreadings to satellites that retransmit them to land-based computers.

The Argos buoys have disappointed the global warm-mongers in that theyhave failed to detect any signs of imminent climate change. As Dr. Josh Willis,who works for NASA in its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, noted in an interview withNational Public Radio, "there has been a very slight cooling" over the buoys'five years of observation, but that drop was "not anything really significant."Certainly not enough to shut down the Gulf Stream.

Climate-change promoters also are perplexed by the observations ofNASA's eight weather satellites. In contrast to some 7,000 land-based stations,they take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily over the surface of theEarth. In 30 years of operation, the satellites have recorded a warming trend ofjust 0.14C — well within the range of normal variations.

If the Argos buoys and satellites had confirmed the greenie computer modelsand Gore hype instead of natural temperature variations, it would have been bignews. The silence speaks volumes.

This March 12, 2008 article in the Washington Post details some of the programs in 2008-2009 season at the Kennedy Center and starts out innocuously enough, albeit with an odd sentence about Arab unity:

The Arab world will be united. Various anniversaries will be duly commemorated. And two different "Ragtimes" will be exhumed, one a musical and the other a Balanchine ballet. These were among the highlights of yesterday's announcement of the Kennedy Center's 2008-09 season.

Then comes the information about the allotted budget:

Next year, the center's annual package-tour festival takes on, rather than a single country, the 22 nations of the Arab League, from Egypt to Somalia. The three-week festival (Feb. 25-March 15) is called "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World," and represents one of the center's most ambitious projects to date. It has a $10 million budget (well over the approximately $6 million for this year's Japan festival) and will entail, among other things, the construction of a souk on the Kennedy Center premises.

Next, comes the Palestinian propaganda and the blatant Islamophilia:

Theater offerings include a play called "Alive From Palestine: Stories Under Occupation." Among the concerts is an evening of sacred music representing the broad range of religions actually present under the Arab umbrella.

Here is the schedule for "Arabesque." The specifics are not yet available, but I would not be the least bit surprised to learn that "Arabesque" will offer performances specifically tailored for audiences of children. Many schools in the D.C. area take field trips to the Kennedy Center, as part of their curricula for appreciation of the fine arts.

As many times as I've attended events at the Kennedy Center, I've never seen hijab-wearing muslimas or other obvious Muslims. So, who is the Arab Festival for? For us infidels, of course, and for the purpose of indoctrination in Islamophilia and dhimmitude.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Departing flights at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam were delayed due to continuing snow in the Netherlands, it was reported.

The number of departing flights was reduced from 60 to 45 per hour.

Train traffic was also affected by the snow. All train traffic to and from Rotterdam was suspended on Tuesday.

The second day of snowfall this winter season caused problems on the train tracks, a spokesman for the Dutch railways NS said.

Trains in the east of the country, between Zutphen and Winterswijk, were also suspended until the problems are solved. NS said the tracks were currently too slippery to be used.

In the night between Monday to Tuesday, 37 road accidents took place due to slippery roads, a spokesman for the Dutch police said.

A warning by the Dutch ministry of road infrastructure, traffic and waterways to stay home as much as possible did not prevent problems on the roads.

By 7 am several Dutch highways had already been closed down entirely or partially following accidents caused by the snow. By 8 am the total length of traffic jams amounted to 760 kilometres -almost seven times the daily average.

One person was killed and about 30 injured when a snowstorm provoked a huge pile-up involving up to 100 vehicles on a motorway in Austria.

The accident, which happened in the middle of this morning on the Seelwachen-St Georgen stretch of the Vienna-Salzburg A1 autobahn, left numerous motorists trapped inside their cars, the Austrian motoring club said. Up to 14 people were seriously injured in the pile-up, according to the Red Cross in the region.

Local hospitals were put on stand-by to deal with the casualties.

Around 40 Red Cross rescue vehicles have been sent to the scene, where they are working alongside the emergency services.Related Links

Police said low visibility due to the snowstorm was to blame for the crash, and the Austrian motoring association OeAMTC said that up to 100 cars and lorries were involved.

One of the association's helicopters was at the scene this afternoon, but other helicopters had to abort their attempts to join the rescue mission because of continuing heavy snowfall.

A quiet epidemic of missing teenagers has Britain questioning its multicultural beliefs and asking why authorities have not acted to protect these children. Only a few weeks after the Archbishop of Canterbury suggested that the British allow for shari’a courts for Muslims, a new study indicates as many as 4,000 or more Muslim teens and young adults simply vanish every year — forced into arranged marriages by family members through abduction, rape, and threat of death:

The figures have triggered a public debate about religion, archaic family traditions and British identity. The government now estimates that 3,000 forced marriages take place in Britain per year.

Even Khanum doubts these numbers. In Luton alone, each year sees 300 calls to an emergency telephone line for victims of forced marriages. “We’re dealing with something here that happens in secrecy,” Khanum says. She estimates that there could be about 4,000 cases nationwide each year of children and young adults who are forced to marry and taken out of the country, both against their will.

They Muslims send their most assimilated children back to the worst areas to be forced into submission.

This practice is as bad as slavery.

IMHO: Islamo-misogyny is the sociological/psychological root cause of jihado-terror:

Children who are taught that it’s okay to do this and worse to their sisters (people of their own blood/their own family/their own tribe) will of course grow up to be able to commit genocide against infidels.

The civilized world must unite to ERADICATE islamo-misogyny.

This can be done without any wars:

Nations which permit islamo-misogyny should be shunned and banned from all international and multilateral organizations - including the UN, the WB, the IMF and WTO.

And then we might use coordinated international police force to interdict the perp's as they transport the victims: we need only remove all young Muslim women during their passage from one nation to another, and then isolate them in safety, and then offer them freedom and refugee status anywhere in the West if they claim to be traveling against their will.

It's that simple.

We can end this practice in a few years time.

With no bullets.

There is NO EXCUSE for the Left not to unite with the Right to achieve this.

There is NO EXCUSE for the Euros not to unite with the USA to achieve this.

The New York Times (via Hot Air Headlines) writes one of their sugarcoated articles about Islamists, here being how they turn to homeschooling. And here, it looks like a lot of those staying at home for teaching are girls. Just a sign of how the parents clearly don't want them making outsider friends, do they? While as for the boys, we can only guess what they'll learn at home when doing so, eh?

One of them even has the chutzpah to insult western girls:

“I don’t want the behavior,” said Aya Ismael, a Muslim mother home-schooling four children near San Jose. “Little girls are walking around dressing like hoochies, cursing and swearing and showing disrespect toward their elders. In Islam we believe in respect and dignity and honor.”

Classic, classic.

If it weren't for the fact that girls seem to be the biggest victims of this homeschooling problem, I'd say it's better that they go learn at home instead of complaining about US schools not accomodating their needs. However, if girls are the main ones subjected to this, I'm not sure.

The heading above comes from an article by Paul Waldman in the Leftist American Prospect magazine. The article begins as follows:

"The right-wing smear campaign against Barack Obama has already begun. Conservatives intend, as they have so many times before, to appeal to Americans' ugliest prejudices and most craven fears

The article that follows is full of hate -- towards conservatives -- and is just one long accusatory diatribe about race. So who is the hater and who is obsessed by race?

As far as one can make out, the "campaign" Waldman refers to is the publicity about Obama's crackpot black racist Pastor. So objecting to black racism makes you a racist, apparently. That probably makes sense in the weird world of the Left. What is in no doubt, however, is that Waldman himself is filled with hate. Just read his article if you do doubt it.

For instance, he says that the GOP will "wage a campaign appealing to the ugliest prejudices, the most craven fears, the most vile hatreds". If that's not hate, I'd like to see him get wound up!

The OVERALL ice cover in the Antarctic is in fact increasing. See graphic below

Last year when Antarctic set a new record for ice extent, it got no media attention. They focused on the north polar regions where the ice set record low levels. This summer when unprecedented anomalous cover continued in the Southern Hemisphere again no coverage. Then this report in the news today. You probably saw it on your favorite network or internet news site (pick one, anyone).

A vast ice shelf hanging on by a thin strip looks to be the next chunk to break off from the Antarctic Peninsula, the latest sign of global warming's impact on Earth's southernmost continent. Scientists are shocked by the rapid change of events. Glaciologist Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado was monitoring satellite images of the Wilkins Ice Shelf and spotted a huge iceberg measuring 25 miles by 1.5 miles (37 square miles) that appeared to have broken away from the shelf. Scambos alerted colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) that it looked like the entire ice shelf - about 6,180 square miles (about the size of Northern Ireland)- was at risk of collapsing. The region where the Wilkins Ice Shelf lies has experienced unprecedented warming in the past 50 years, with several ice shelves retreating in the past 30 years. Six of these ice shelves have collapsed completely: Prince Gustav Channel, Larsen Inlet, Larsen A, Larsen B, Wordie, Muller and the Jones Ice Shelf.

Lets put this in perspective. The account may be misinterpreted by some as the ice cap or a significant (vast) portion is collapsing. In reality it and all the former shelves that collapsed are small and most near the Antarctic peninsula which sticks well out from Antarctica into the currents and winds of the South Atlantic and lies in a tectonically active region with surface and subsurface active volcanic activity. The vast continent has actually cooled since 1979.

The full Wilkins 6,000 square mile ice shelf is just 0.39% of the current ice sheet (just 0.1% of the extent last September). Only a small portion of it between 1/10th-1/20th of Wilkins has separated so far, like an icicle falling off a snow and ice covered house. And this winter is coming on quickly. In fact the ice is returning so fast, it is running an amazing 60% ahead (4.0 vs 2.5 million square km extent) of last year when it set a new record. The ice extent is already approaching the second highest level for extent since the measurements began by satellite in 1979 and just a few days into the Southern Hemisphere winter and 6 months ahead of the peak. Wilkins like all the others that temporarily broke up will refreeze soon. We are very likely going to exceed last year's record. Yet the world is left with the false impression Antarctica's ice sheet is also starting to disappear.